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Book reviewed in this article:Economic Aspects of Australian Land Tazation. By J. M. Garland.Unbalanced Bicdgets, A Study of the Financial Crisis in Fifteen Countries. By Hugh Dalton and others.The British Way to Recovery. By Herbert Heaton.Social Aspects of Indwtriul Development in Japan. By Fernand MauretteMiners and Management. By Mary Van Kleeck.Agriculture and the Trade Cycle. By J. H. Kirk.Prairie Settlement: The Geographical Setting. By W. A. MackintoshKupitdpoEitik. By R. W. Goldschmidt.Publications of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University.Eschange Control. By Paul Einzig.The Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain. By Helen F. Hohman.The Triumph of Mediocrity in Business. By H. Secrist.World Economic Survey‐Third Pear 1933‐34. By J. B. Condliffe.Xationul Public Works. (Report of an Enquiry‐by the Communications and Transit Organization of the League of Kations).Public Works Policy. (International Labour Office, Studies and Reports, Series C, No. 19).Imperial Econontu and Its Place in the Formation of Economic Doctrine, 1600–2932. By C. R. Fay, M.A., DSC.Early Constitutional Development in Australia: New South WaZes, 1789–1856. By A. C. V. Melbourne.Economic Scares. By Edwin Cannan.The Depreciation of Capital dndytically Considered. By R. F. FowlerCommercial Banks 19251933. League of Nations.League of Natims: Bdawes of Payments, 1933.Economic and Trade Conditions in Australia to Decembw, 1933. By R. W. Dalton.Population Theories and Their Application, W i t h Special Reference t o Japun. By E. F. Penrose.

The Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain, by Helen Fisher Hohman

The Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain, <i>by Helen Fisher Hohman</i>

The Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain: A Study of British Social Legislation in Relation to a Minimum Standard of Living.Helen Fisher Hohman

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain: A Study of British Social Legislation in Relation to a Minimum Standard of Living. Helen Fisher Hohman Olga S. HalseyOlga S. Halsey Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 1Jul., 1935 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/217044 Views: 1Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

A Plea for a National Social Security System

MY POSITION on this program is slightly ambiguous. I am here definitely expressing a labor point of view, but yet am not enunciating an official position. The only official declaration that has been expressed on this question is that of President Green of the American Federation of Labor when he testified before the House and Senate committees in January. On this question of social security legislation, my views are not exactly spectacular. I am not a recent convert to the cause of social insurance, and have rather exhausted my youthful missionary zeal. My approach is somewhat that of the skeptic; I have been lobbying for labor bills long enough to know that I am going to get considerably less than is really needed, and far less than I believe is desirable and just. My attitude on the whole question of social security, so-called, is based on the premise that real security can be achieved only by establishing a secure economy. The enactment of social insurance legislation will not speed the birth of a new social order. This type of legislation is definitely palliative in character. It is only concern for the victims of a system that refuses to work, that causes me to devote time and energy to the struggle for unemployment insurance and related meas-

The Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain: A Study of British Social Legislation in Relation to a Minimum Standard of Living. Helen Fisher Hohman

<i>The Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain: A Study of British Social Legislation in Relation to a Minimum Standard of Living</i>. Helen Fisher Hohman

The development of social insurance and minimum wage legislation in Great Britain. Helen Fisher Hohman

<i>The development of social insurance and minimum wage legislation in Great Britain</i>. Helen Fisher Hohman

The Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain; A Study of British Social Legislation in Relation to a Minimum Standard of Living. By Helen Fisher Hohman. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1933. Pp. xxi, 441.)

The Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain; A Study of British Social Legislation in Relation to a Minimum Standard of Living. By Helen Fisher Hohman. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1933. Pp. xxi, 441.) - Volume 28 Issue 2

Book Review: The Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain

Book Review: The Development of Social Insurance and Minimum Wage Legislation in Great Britain